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New Delhi: The All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) on July 1 moved Liberhan Commission, seeking summoning of former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Kalyan Singh in view of his recent allegation that Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) top leaders, including Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani, were involved in the conspiracy to demolish the disputed structure at Ayodhya.

In an application filed through counsel Bahar U Bharqi, the Board said Singh, being the main witness and the Chief Minister at the time of demolition, has special knowledge of the facts relevant to the Commission's inquiry and therefore he must be examined.

The plea is likely to be taken up for hearing on July 10.

The Board also pointed to the Centre's reported stand holding the former Chief Minister guilty of failing in his duty to protect the disputed structure.

Singh has been resisting his summoning by the Commission on the ground that his submissions before it might be used against him in the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the demolition.

He had filed a writ petition against his summoning in the Delhi High Court, which was dismissed as infructuous on April 1, 2003 after the Commission closed recording of evidence.

The Commission maintains that if Singh chooses not to depose, "appropriate inference will be drawn in the report".

Only on June 30 Mohammad Aslam alias Bhure, on whose petition the Supreme Court had banned all religious activity on the 67 acres of acquired land adjacent to the disputed site, sought summoning of Vajpayee, Advani and Singh, following the former UP Chief Minister's recent "revelation".

PTI